Rail-tie.



S.- DAMBROWSKI.

HAH. TIE. APPLxcATioN FILED SEPT. 2H. ma.

1,295,859, Patented Mar. 4,1919.

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STANISLAW DAMBROWSKI, 0F CENTRAL FALLS, rRAI-IODE ISLAND.

RAIL-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 4, 1919.

Application mea septemberas, 191s. serial No. -256,111.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, STANIsLAW DAMBROW- SKI, a subject of the Emperor of Austria, residing at Central Falls, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Rail-Ties, of which the following is a speciiication.

rlhe primary object of the invention is the provision of a railway tie adapted to be anchored to the road bed at either a straight or curved portion of the track whereby added strength and rigidity is given to the railway line resulting in great strength and durability under traiiic conditions.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a metallic tie adapted for dej tachably mounting railway rails thereon, ad-

justable anchoring means being provided .for the tie for bracing the same against the strains of travel as well as securing the tie to the road bed.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a metallic tie of simple construction which is easy and inexpensive to manufacture, but at the same time possesses great strength and is adapted for locking rails thereon as well as anchoring to the road bed of the railroad line.

With -these general objects in view, the device consists of the novel combination and arrangement of parts fully described herein as well as illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention with railway rails operatively mounted thereon, parts being shown in vertical longitudinal section;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken upon line`II*II of Fig. 1; i

Fig. 3 is a side elevation tlereof with the anchoring means in a diiferent position and parts broken away; and

Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse sectional yiew thereof taken upon line IV-IV of Referring more in detail to the drawing, my invention provides a hollow tie 10 of substa-ntially inverted trough-shape adapted for positioning upon a road bed, such as 11, for operatively supporting railway rails 12 transversely positioned thereon at the proper gage distance of the railroad.

The top or platform 13 of the tie 10 is provided with opposite-marginal flanges 14 adjacent the opposite ends of the tie adapted for the reception of supporting plates 15 slidably therebetween. Each ofthe plates 15 has a foot member 16 positioned through a slot 17 in the platform 13, while an upwardly projecting flange or nger 181upon the plate 15 is adapted to overlie the outer base iange of the adjacent rail 12. It will be understood that the plates 15 are of greater thickness than the height of the guide flanges 14 so that the entire weight of the rails is supported by the plates 15 without engaging the flanges 14. A separate finger 19 is provided 'for overlying' the inner liange of each of the rails 12, while two bolts 20 extend through the platform 13, plate 15 and linger 19 for retaining the plate and iinger engaged with the rail 12 as well as preventing longitudinal movement of the plate upon the tie tending to separate the pla-te there-from.

Adjustable anchoring means are detachably positioned within the chamber or hollow interior 21 of the tie 10 in the nature of slabs 22 adapted to project from the tie 10 into the road bed 1l.

The slabs 22 are pentagonal in form adapted for sliding within the chamber 2l within opposite ways or grooves 23 formed adjacent the opposite ends of the tie 10 by means of ribs 24 upon the inner faces of the opposite sides of the tie. Opposite sides 25 of the slabs 22 are convergingly arranged for f1tting the inclination of the sides of the tie, while a slot 26 is provided in the top of the slab to accommodate the adjacent linger 16. The lower edges 27 of the Slabs 22 are sharpened aswell as being convergent to assist in pressing the slabs into the road bed 11 for anchoring the tie thereto. The slabs 22 may be mounted in this manner in any other ways 23, such for instance, as projecting in opposite directions after the inclination of the ends 28 of the tie 10 as Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing.

Such a positioning of the slabs 22 is serviceable for a straight line of track but upon a curve where the tie is usually positioned upon a sloping portion of the road bed 1l, the slabs 22 may be positioned in relatively illustrated in Y dierentones of said ways 23 with one of having lower sharpened edges projecting 2o the slabs substantially vertical andthe other from the tie adapted for engaging the road outwardly inclined as illustrated in Fig'. 3. bed. The sla-bs 22 may be Withdrawn from the 2. A device of the class described comroad bed when required, although affording prising a hollow tie having ways Within its ample anchoringfacilities when in use, it beinterior adjacent its opposite ends, anchor- 25 ing obvious that any set of ways 23 are einY ing slabs removably positioned within .said ployed which are found to be the most servways having a projecting portion provided iceable. A tie is provided which possesses with sharpened edges.Y Y

great strength and durability readily an- 3. 'A device ofthe class described comprischored upon the road bed at any desired poing an inverted trough-shaped tie, opposite 30 sition for use inl supporting railway rails. pairs of guide ribs provided within the tie, W'hat l claimV new is: anchoring slabs removably positioned within l. A tie comprising an inverted trough the tie, anchoring slabs removably positioned shaped member vhaving a rail supporting Within the tie adjacent said ribs and 'having top', spaced ribs opposite'lyr'provided in pairs pointed portions projecting'beneatli the tie 35 within the same'adjacent the opposite'ends adapted 'for engaging the road bed, of the device forming ways, and pentagonal In testimony whereof I aiiix niy'signatuie. slabs removably positioned within said Ways STANISLAW DAMBROWSK,

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